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Dat doesn't match that description. It has funding from a few different orgs with respectable endowments and is focused on solving real problems for non-tech pe
by carussell 9y ago
Dat doesn't match that description. It has funding from a few different orgs with respectable endowments and is focused on solving real problems for non-tech people trying to share data.
Beaker is interesting because it's enabling things that aren't possible on the HTTP web, and (again) focusing on making it stupid easy for non-tech people do things. Meanwhile, the major browser vendors' idea of forward motion amounts to working on things that web developers can use to impress other web developers and maintaining existing barriers to entry.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoChecked out Dat and Beaker, and I'm in love already - it's great to see people appreciating the terrible costs of the blockchain, and figuring out how to get distributed trust without it. The post by Beaker's creator, linked in this article, is also worth a look: https://pfrazee.github.io/blog/secure-ledgers-dont-require-proof-of-work https://pfrazee.github.io/blog/secure-ledgers-dont-require-p....
- edraferi 9y agoKeybase is a good example of the centralized “secure ledger” described in the article you linked: > Keybase's approach to server security: (1) each user has his or her own signature chain that grows monotonically with each announcement; (2) the server maintains a global Merkle Tree that covers all signature chains; and (3) the server signs and publishes the root of the Merkle Tree with every new user signature. This configuration strongly discourages the server from lying by omission, since clients have the tools to catch the server in the act. Source: https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitcoin_blockchain https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitco...